I'm Not Cold; Just Scared

(*^3^)/~☆ Chapter 45 [FINAL] (*^3^)/~☆

"You haven't finished packing yet, have you?" Daehwi asked, looking at Jinyoung's panicked expression with a raised eyebrow.

"Um...how did you know?" he mumbled.

"Jinyoung!!" Hyungseob whined in annoyance. 

Daehwi groaned. "C'mon, let's go you idiot, you had a whole day to pack, what were you doing?" he babbled, grabbing Jinyoung by the wrist and pulling him upstairs.

"Hurry up!" Woojin yelled.

"Sheesh, Woojin hyung's been nagging at us a lot lately" Daehwi grumbled, shaking his head. "Anyways- oh my freaking lord!" 

The eighteen year old froze at the sight of the clothes just dumped on the bed. "Don't tell me you haven't even started packing? Hyung!"

Jinyoung groaned. "Okay fine, I didn't." he muttered, looking away as yet another worry dawned on him.

Daehwi noticed the change in Jinyoung's expression. "Hyung? What's wrong, you look worried"

"It's nothing" Jinyoung sighed. "I'm just nervous"

"Nervous? Why?" he  asked, looking confused.

"I don't know...will the hyungs still think I'm a coward? What if they don't want me to live with them, I don't want to trouble them, if they hate me I'm fine but...I'm still so worr-"

"Yah" Daehwi cut him off, cupping the older's cheeks. "Stop worrying so much, eo? They all watched the video that Hyungseob hyung sent them and they don't think of you like that anymore. They know, Jinyoung hyung. They know you did nothing wrong. Besides, if they didn't want you to live with them, Jisung hyung wouldn't be preparing a surprise party for you right now, would he?"

"What?"

"Yep, he's planning to surprise you, so don't tell anyone that I told you about it already or they'll crucify me." Daehwi giggled. "My point is, they all realized that you weren't at fault so none of them hate you anymore. So stop overthinking about it, and let's start packing, okay?"

Jinyoung smiled a little, Daehwi's words making him feel better. "hmm, okay"

Daehwi squeezed his cheeks. "Ahh hyung, you're so cute~" he muttered.

"Yah, you're calling me cute? Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror?" Jinyoung asked.

"Hey, none of that, let's start packing this stuff" Daehwi replied, moving away to hide his red face. 

"Cute" Jinyoung muttered to himself, smiling.

The two spent the next five minutes hastily stuffing clothes into the box that they had first come in. "Are we done?" Daehwi asked, closing the box. Jinyoung nodded. "C'mon let's take this downstairs"

"Took you long enough" Woojin complained as they climbed down the stairs. "Jisung hyung called me five times, and the old dude's not in a good mood." 

"Sorry hyung" Jinyoung apologized. "Can you help me load this stuff into the car?"

Five more minutes passed by as they tried to shove the huge box into the tiny boot of the car. After they finished, they all got into the car and sped off.

Jinyoung sighed to himself, as the car moved out of Hyungseob's neighborhood. He realized that he was finally going to set into a completely new lifestyle of his own from now on. As haunting as the thought was, he couldn't help but feel proud of himself for doing this, knowing how terrified he usually got in these situations. 

Daehwi pulled the sleeve of Jinyoung's shirt, making the older turn to him with a questioning expression. "Pretend like you don't know about the surprise party thing, okay? I don't want to be murdered by a bunch of grumpy old men" Daehwi hissed.